actors. In 2008 the German ministry for education and research (BMBF) started the Leading-Edge Cluster competition … 2011 with cluster actors (firms and public research) who received government funding. Our results indicate that the program … was quite effective in initiating new cooperations between cluster actors and in intensifying existing linkages. The vast …

depth face-to-face interviews in clusters across two continents to examine the drivers of a cluster's innovativeness along … the industry lifecycle. The results from our interviews suggest that the impact of key drivers of cluster innovativeness … change depending on the stage of a cluster's underlying industry lifecycle. Classifying clusters as either being adolescent …

management (e.g. resource-based view) and the economic geography literature (e.g. cluster approach), variables from three … from revealing that being located in a cluster indeed increases on average firm innovativeness, one of the central findings … is that firms benefit unequally within the cluster environment depending on the specific firm-level, cluster …

Cluster studies have shown that innovation can be understood as the result of an inter- organizational process, where a … division of labor with regard to exploration and exploitation exists among the actors inside the cluster. A cluster is … approaches by means of exploration. In this context we are interested in the supportive role of cluster management, assuming that …

We study the effects of a German national cluster policy on the structure of collaboration networks. The empirical … analysis is based on original data that was collected in fall 2011 and late summer 2013 with cluster actors (firms and public … initiating new cooperation between cluster actors and in intensifying existing linkages. Newly formed linkages are to a …

actors. In 2008 the German ministry for education and research (BMBF) started the "Leading-Edge Cluster competition … 2011 with cluster actors (firms and public research) who received government funding. Our results indicate that the program … was quite effective in initiating new cooperations between cluster actors and in intensifying existing linkages. The vast …

depth face-to-face interviews in clusters across two continents to examine the drivers of a cluster's innovativeness along … the industry lifecycle. The results from our interviews suggest that the impact of key drivers of cluster innovativeness … change depending on the stage of a cluster's underlying industry lifecycle. Classifying clusters as either being adolescent …

and drastic changes in the politic-economic environment. We thus conclude that regional entrepreneurship cultures do exist …

The 40 years of socialist regime in East Germany were characterized by a massive anti-entrepreneurship policy. We … investigate the reemergence of entrepreneurship in East Germany during its transformation to a market economy following the … market economy, suggesting the existence of a long-lasting regional entrepreneurship culture. …